1000 Miles of Smiles

Monday, 23 August 2010

The Addams family.

We used to enjoy watching these films, especially as the new versions had Christina Ricci in them as 'Wednesday', the 10 year old ish girl.

Sitting at the dinner table, Wednesday said something like
"Pass the salt"
Her Mother, Morticia said
"What do we say dear?", to which Wednesday replied forcefully
"NOW!"

Indeed it is for our decrepit band of travellers. It's stupid o'clock, pouring with rain, and we're all on a mission, even having remembered the kitchen sink. My wife was rightfully worried, security wise, about the bikes on the back of the car, which actually have half a mile of chains, locks an goodness knows what.

We also have one of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee3L9BQQ4Gs

Sunday, 22 August 2010

Corpulent punishment with Mr Thomas

I went out for a little training ride with Mr Thomas, our headteacher last night. He was worried he wasn't fit enough. My goodness me, he spent most of his time when we were going up grovelling long hills with me gasping away, selling the virtues of his private business, utility warehouse. He then topped 40mph descending like some kind of wheeled Kamikaze, then tried to trigger the speed cameras going through the built up areas. A beast of a man.

Fresh as a daisy, we got back to his house, me a dripping mess, and he told his wife I needed a glass of water. He promptly bounded off up the stairs to take part in one of his phone conferences, then came back down later, no doubt having made at least £10 000.

Thankfully, he's only doing the one day with us, or I would surely die.

Disaster

PC Emma has had to drop out. If you are a keen and fairly able cyclist, you can get a ride in our tour bus, setting off 6 am Tuesday 24th, cycle a few days in Scotland. Accom. and flight back to Cardiff on Mon 30th all sorted for you.

Meanwhile, I came across this picture. Strangely, the checklist seems to cover all the stuff you are guaranteed to experience on some of the touogher stages!

Saturday, 21 August 2010

Coming soon to a place near you!

Sorry no new posts recently, there will plenty more to come. We're catching up with all the mapping stuff so you can all come and hurl abuse/vegetables etc at us. A cup of tea and a slice of cake would be more desirable, however we aim to please in whatever way we can.

We're in the process of getting all kinds of TV people interested, so if you want to be an extra, we will pay you absolutely nothing at all if you want to walk around in the background, especially if you goof about because the camera is on. Likewise with the radio, we don't want a frog's chorus of eructation as a mood setter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jowe0jPBrBA&feature=search